The Flanged Ears of Planet Tiburon is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Doctor Sevrin with an even hand, and notable for its zero percent divorce rate, smutty television, and enforced nudity. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 13.766 billion Tiburonians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Social Policy, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Onakk. The average income tax rate is 63.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Tiburonian economy, worth 785 trillion Zoras a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Basket Weaving, Furniture Restoration, Book Publishing, and Soda Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 57,056 Zoras, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People who eat pizza with lactase supplements are arrested by the flavour police, children get arrested for floating paper boats on lakes, international television adverts praise the nation as a worker's paradise, and the government's energy policy of refugee 'refuelment' is a well-oiled machine. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Planet Tiburon's national animal is the Synthococcus Novae, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Planet Tiburon is ranked 211,509^th in the world and 112^th in United Earth Space Probe Agency for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 921.24 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.